Movablestyle.com

Site transfer complete!

Just got word from my provider that the domain transfer has been completed. The change should propagate through the net within the next day or so.

I've made my site modifications active as well, well half of them really. On the front page you will now see 2 drop down boxes. The first allows you to choose MT 2.x styles for your default 2.x templates, while the bottom allows you to choose MT 3.x styles for your default 3.x templates.

For now I've added the default stylesheets that Sixapart provides on their homepage, but will be uploading new and updated designs in the near future. All stylesheets on this site have been released under the Creative Commons license, I will be working on updating some of the older posts here as well to make this more evident. You will also notice that the individual pages are using a rather boring stylesheet. This will also be changing in the near future. I figured that getting the main index page updated was the most important thing :)

For now you can:

Apply Movabletype 3 - Chalkboard style
Apply Movabletype 3 - Gettysburg style
Apply Movabletype 3 - Independence style
Apply Movabletype 3 - Sakura style
Apply Movabletype 3 - Squash style

Please let me know what you all think of the changes. I will be asking for user stylesheet submissions soon as well. So if you feel like having your work to be released here, and you don't mind having it licensed under the Creative Commons license, feel free to email me!

eep!

Just wanted to let everyone know that updates are coming soon! Just after setting this site up I got a hefty dose of real life. Things are settling down now though, which is a goot thing. Both for me and the site :)

The scripts that I've been working on so I can serve up MT2, MT3 and Wordpress styles all on the same page are nearing completion. Hopefully I'll have something up within the next week. Stay tuned..

Welcome

Hello, Welcome to the new Movablestyle.com!

Some of you may know me from my weblog dasme.org. A few days back I was surfing along visiting some of my old bookmarks. I came to this site and saw the posting below from Scott Yang. He no longer had the time to update the site, and was looking for someone to take over for him. I contacted him right away. He agreed to transfer the domain, and this is the result.

I first found this site through a websearch when I was in the planning stages of my own Movabletype template site. Seeing what a good job Scott did I put my plans on the back burner. Now to actually be running the site that I found, well... it's quite ironic. :)

For right now I put the backup Scott sent me online, but have some big changes in mind. Stay tuned.

Did some of you say Movabletype 2.x, Movabletype 3.x and WordPress styles? hmmm... curious.

Gold on Grey

Haven't had a new style for a whole, but here you go. Tested under Firefox 0.8 and Internet Explorer 6SP1 so far, and has not had a chance to look at it through Safari. It is basically a mutated style based on "Boxed" with dark titianium grey background and gold text. Shadow effect created with image on the top banner.

Apply Titanium Gold style

Wish everyone has an enjoyable weekend.

Style Switcher Implementation

There seems to be a few requests regarding to how the style switcher is implemented, so this entry will serve this purpose - detailing how I implemented the style switcher on the Movable Style site, including samples of source code that you can use for your own site.

The internals of this style switcher is actually quite simple, but it requires PHP running on the server side for it to work. Here are some objectives that I had when I first started:

• Minimal client side (java-)scripting.
• Works on every page.

Frequently Asked Question

Recently Movable Style has attracted quite a few visitors (current at around 200-300 unique visitors per day), and sorry if I have not updated the site or respond to your comments. I have been busy - just moved to a new place that needs lots of work, wife expecting a baby in July, lots of demand at work, working with new students at church, etc. I will try to answer some of your questions this entry, and hopefully when I finally have more time on hand (if ever), I would go back to work on more styles.

Lines with a Modern Look

I have just created a new style that utilises position: relative to move the display of date to the side of the blog entries. Adding borders of different width, and I am trying to give it a modern look. Most of the time is spent on getting it to work on Internet Explorer, which makes funny rendering when I started adding some paddings. At the end, I figured that it is better to use margin than padding, in cases where both of them create the same effect, as somehow IE calculates the position better with it. Or better, just switch to Mozilla to gain much better web surfing experience.

Apply Modern Lines style

Another thing is the style submissions. Although I took one and published it previously, but I have decided that I'll dedicate this site for the styles that I have created. It is just getting too hard to keep track (and doing quality control on all the variations) of all the styles you guys have submitted. Plus all the confusing copyright issue that I need to deal with. Thank you if you have emailed me your style sheet! But I think I am not aiming to build a styles repository from the beginning. I'll rather to keep this place a small collection of styles of my own.